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By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
Thomas More
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Thomas More
Age: 57 †
Born: 1478
Born: February 7
Died: 1535
Died: July 6
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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
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By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
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In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.
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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature's lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
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It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
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Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.
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It's a poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another.
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As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.
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